Day 13 - Ski Day and Day 14 - Daddy goes to Costco

When I was growing up no ski day was complete without cheese and crackers for lunch and then a homemade pizza for dinner.  Those were the days of T-bars and rope-tows, now we have magic carpets, chairs for 6 and soup with hummus and Mary's crackers for lunch.  Eating dinner out today was almost as difficult as skiing in near whiteout conditions but we all had a great time.  It's all about the company and not the mega chocolate dessert with 4 spoons, one of which was not used :-(  
It was a fairly cold day with lots of real and man-made snow coming down all day.  Part way through the day I made an interesting observation, my nose was not running nearly as much as it usually does when I'm out in the cold.  I attribute this to the cleanse.  The food eaten on this cleanse is non-mucus forming and as a result my body was better able to handle the cold that day.  
During the first 10 days of this 28 cleanse if your slip up you have to start all over again so it's best to eat all your meals at home.  From days 11-28 it's still better to eat at home but if you have to eat out you just make wise choices and take an extra digestive enzyme with your meal.  
My life cleanse today was to actually make the effort to spend time with friends.  It is so easy for me to say I'm too busy to carve out the time for friends and tell myself I'll do it later, but time with friends doing something you love is something I need to do now, not later.  

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Day 14
I don't know why Dennis lets the girls eat this stuff!  The kids love it when daddy is on Costco duty because they know there's is no way I'll buy this for them, yuck!  Even if I wasn't on this cleanse I would still think poutine is the grossest food ever.  
Tonight I, along with 4 other leaders, had the pleasure of sleeping in the church basement with our Sparks and Brownie Unit.  Life goes on while eating clean so I packed up my snacks and my breakfast and away I went.  Do you have any idea how hard it is to pass up a smore while having a "campfire"?  
One of the leaders asked me how much longer I had for the cleanse and I had actually forgot what day I was on.  Once the first 10 days are over then you're basically eating great food and taking supplements so it's easy, and probably better, to forget what day you're on.  It is fun though watching the number of supplements left in the bottle slowly go down.  So officially we are half way through the cleanse and we both feel great.  We have both lost a bit of weight but the real goal here is to feel better, loose the coffee addiction and basically increase our overall health.  

My life cleanse for the next two days is to get my accounting set up on Quick Books, arrggggg.

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